Philly Cheesesteak Sauce Recipe

Hi - I'm looking for an authentic Philly cheese steak sauce recipe. I've found recipes that call for Cheez whiz and white american, but I'm not sure if this is the right choice. We live in Colorado and want to make the sandwiches during a Denver Broncos/Philadelphia Eagles game on Sunday. Any help is appreciated.

I don't use chip steak meat for my Philly cheesesteaks, rather super thin slices of rib eye (butcher will do it) or I partially freeze my own and try my best with slicing. I have cheated and used Steak-ums. I offer chopped onions for Wit Whiz & cook it under the steak and Wit Out, for someone like my who doesn't want onions (Wit Out). The roll should be long and crusty, IMO so there's real estate for other add-ons, including the juice from the meat. Yum, I'm hungry.

Cheese Whiz is a viable authentic component of a real Philly cheesesteak, but not necessary. There are a lot of great cheesesteak shops in Philly that don't even offer Whiz. Save it for the French fries, where Whiz is a must for dipping. It's still a true Philly cheesesteak, and a better one, IMO, with white American cheese, just don't mix the two. Serve them with hot cherry peppers and ketchup on the side.

Also, another suggestion if you want to really please your Philly fans, serve a tomato pie as well. A tomato pie is like Sicilian pizza but served on a rectangular crust more like focaccia and topped with a good thick tomato sauce made with crushed tomatoes, tomato paste and oregano and no cheese except maybe a sprinkle of good quality grated Parmesan or locatelli cheese and a drizzle of olive oil. It's never served hot, always at room temp. Oh and maybe overnight some authentic Philly soft pretzels. Just google, "overnight Philly soft pretzels" and you'll have many options. Serve those with grainy mustard.

If you don't have time for that, you can just plan another Philly themed party for the Super Bowl, haha, you know, before we Philly folk get bombed by the haters. Enjoy!